As if the color was looking at you
The work was premiered as a triptych version, exhibited site specifically for my solo show, Come se il colore stesse a guardarti, at Adiacenze gallery in Bologna, IT. The choreography, performed by Annamaria Ajmone, has been processed with analog synthesizers during a residency at Signal Culture, NY, USA.
The video presents a body that has been triplicated and entangled in a network of exterior conditionings. The perceptual value of the same choreographic action changes as the colour changes. Especially this disturbed and glitchy colour which consists in a spectrum of possibilities in which the body is immersed, in a choreography that draws an interaction that starts from simple and minimal geometric gestures and eventually rise to a small climax, of fluid movements, affected by a porous, wrinkled and always in movement reality: an endless flood of small folds.
The video shows, choosing the triptych as a display, a device that is a reference to the sacred art and is referred etymologically to the fold: the truth lays between the folds which are replicated to infinity. According to Deleuze the fold is a metaphor, of the formation of a soul and a contemporary consciousness.
“It is a multiplicity that is being bended and explained, and it is up to us and our ability to conceive it and to try explaining it" (Deleuze)
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Sara BonaventuraDirectordirector
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Signal CultureProducerco-production
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Caterina BarbieriProducersoundtrack
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Annamaria AjmoneKey Castperformer
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Project Type:Experimental
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Genres:screendance, glitch, analog, videosynth
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Runtime:10 minutes 2 seconds
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Completion Date:May 15, 2017
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Production Budget:1,000 USD
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Country of Origin:United States
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Country of Filming:Italy
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Trans(m)it: Movement in filmLondon
United Kingdom -
Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving ImageJohnson City, NY
United States -
ScreenDance Meeting in Venice and LondonVenice
Italy -
Here Comes EverybodyLos Angeles
United States -
Blockbuster VideoPittsburgh
United States -
International Video Dance Festival of BurgundyLe Creusot
France -
Lago Film FestRevine Lago
Italy -
AdiacenzeBologna
Italy -
LL NUIT LONG VIDÉODANSE re(MIX), Nuit blanche à MontréaMontreal
Canada
March 3, 2018 -
Milwaukee Underground Film FestivalMilwaukee
United States
April 20, 2018 -
Asolo Art Film FestivalAsolo
Italy -
NOLI ME TANGERENiksic
Montenegro -
57th Ann Arbor Film FestivalAnn Arbor
United States
March 29, 2019 -
ID.Y Fest, Dance BaseEdinburgh
United Kingdom -
ikonoTV & Pool FestivalBerlin
Germany -
Screen@SABAmherst
United States -
Echo Park Film CenterLos Angeles
United States
April 4, 2019 -
PLAY Videoarte, 8th editionCorrientes
Argentina -
VAST LAB experimental festivalBurbank, California
United States -
DIGITAL ART International FestivalSofia
Bulgaria -
Pink NoisePortland
United States -
Performing Media Festival [PMF~ 2020]South Bend
United States -
EP7, Exposition numérique sur la façadeParis
France -
Spectrum Optica, Sumonar Festival 2021, Jogja National MuseumJogjakarta
Indonesia -
Mockjungle with Art City BolognaBologna
Italy
Sara Bonaventura (1982) is an Italian visual artist and educator.
She works at the intersection between visual and media arts, lens based media and new media. As independent videographer she has been collaborating with performers and musicians, directing clips, ads, curating visuals.
Her video works have been screened worldwide; at the NYC Anthology Film Archives, the San Francisco Independent Short Film Festival, at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Asolo Art Film Festival, at Studio 303 for the Montreal Nuit Blanche, the Miami New Media Festival, the Athens Digital Arts Festival, at Rome MACRO Museum, the Cinemateca do MAM in Rio for Dobra Festival, the MOMus in Thessaloniki for Videolands curated by Miden Festival, the itinerant Time is Love screening curated by Kisito Assangni, the Mexico City CODEC festival, Other Cinema at San Francisco ATA Gallery, the LA Echo Park Film Center, the Boston Cyber Arts Gallery and more.
She won the Veneto Region Award at the 10th Lago Film Fest and a merit for the 2019 Sino per NIIO Illumination Art Prizes, with one of her work displayed in one of the world biggest public screen in Hong Kong; she has been selected for several residencies, i.e. in 2016 by Joan Jonas at Fundacion Botin (Santander, Spain). Selected for the ISEA 2019, the International Symposium for Electronic Arts, in Gwangju, South Korea. Finalist for the call Shut up, or rather speak, of La Galleria Nazionale, Rome (2020).